given the length of event $x$, in $90$ occurrences how many times will length length $x$ be greater than $3$?

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the length of event $x$ has approximately an exponential distribution with a mean of 90 minutes. if event $x$ occurs $90$ times, how many times will the event last longer than $3$ hours?

My work so far:

here for exponential distribution parameter $β = 90$

$P$ (event occur after 3 hours (180 minutes)):

$$P(X>180)=1-P(X<180)=1-(1-\exp(-180/90))= 0.1353$$

therefore the number of events that last longer than $3$ hours

$$=np=90*0.1353= 12.177 \sim 12$$